Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays! 

Tigger, Piglet and Pooh wishing you Happy Holidays whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas or something else :)  

 Base 10.1 Polish Reservation and Mermaid scales. Made stamping decals of the Disney cuties from Fab Ur Nails FUN11, the tree is from Winstonia Store W222, Tigger is holding a candle from Nailways Snowwhite-Christmas plate, also from this plate the candy cane Pooh is holding, dotted Piglets hat, the star on my thumb is from Bundle Monster BM-H02 and the small yellow stars at the tips are from BM-H14.

And here a picture of the base.

Thanks for reading!

xoxox

Poinsettia's

Hi everyone,

Today a Christmas mani I did about a week ago. I received these beautiful 10.1 polishes and FUN plates and I just really wanted to use them. So I chose a flower that I could color over and kinda looks like a Poinsettia :)

10.1 Polish Starry Night over Sinful Colors Nail Polish Black on Black. Stamped the sort of Poinsettia flowers in white from Fab Ur Nails FUN14 colored over them with 10.1 polish Scarlet and Evergreen. Stamped the white snowflakes from bornprettystore BP-01 and the word Christmas is from Nailways Snowwhite- Christmas plate.

And another picture.

Here some swatches from 10.1 Polish Starry night over Sinful Colors Black on Black.

 

Here the beautiful polishes from 10.1 polish beautiful holo's bright and sheers great for coloring images with.

Thanks for reading.

Have a nice weekend!

xoxox

St. Patricks Day 2014

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick post today but this was my St. Patricks Day mani. 

A 3 colored gradient with DA magical, China Glaze L8R G8R and Nubar Reclaim. Stamped the rainbow with Konad blue, green, yellow (dotted over that again to make it brighter), pastel orange and red. Made stamping decals of the coins Bundle Monster BM-H05, beer Winstonia W105, hat BM-H04, lucky horseshoe BM-H04 and the pot of gold from BM-H04 too. Made the leprechaun from the santa image on Nailways Snowwhite - Christmas, used a little freehand to make him look like a leprechaun. Stamped the shamrocks from Nailways Springtime - Flowers.  Using Konad green, apple green, black, yellow, white, gold brown, red and Essence a piece of forever.

And another picture.

And a picture of just the gradient base.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Christmas tree with decorations

Hi everyone :)

The theme of the 2nd week of the Nail Polish Canada Holiday challenge is: Decorations :)  So I made a Christmas tree and decorations for in the tree :) The ring finger is the tree and the rest are close-ups from parts of the tree ;)  

Base Nubar Reclaim and Different Dimensions Gnarly. Made a stamping decal of the tree from Moyou Festive (aka Christmas) 01, colored the tree with Nubar Reclaim and stamped all the litte ornaments separately on top of that. Stamped the red bow with BM317, the black strings stamped with part of the santa sleigh with reindeer Moyou festive 01, the blue/silver ball, the snowman, the gingerbread and the candy are from Nailways Snowwhite-Christmas A-NW00002 plate. Made little stamping decals of those. And dotted the yellow garland.  Colors used for stamping and coloring: Nubar Reclaim, Konad SN black, SN white, SN red, SN yellow, SN sky pearl, SN dark orange and a mini Color Club silver (don't know the name).

And here a pic of just the ring finger stamped, I also liked this look but since the theme is decorations I thought let's go a little more crazy on the rest of my nails too ;)

You can all still join :) Like I said last week I just join for the fun cause I believe since I am not in the US or Canada I am not eligible for the prizes. You can see all the entries on their site (see link above) and vote for your favorite. If that happen to be mine, thanks :)

Have a nice weekend!

xoxox

My sad gray Mommy memorial Christmas nails :(

Hi Everyone,

Today it's been exactly a year that my mom died...it was 2nd Christmas day 2011. So I decided to make some less happy Christmas nails for Christmas. I've been making happy nails for a couple of weeks already and I really wanted to make these now for my mommy, cause I don't feel happy at all. And as you know I love doing my nails for special things/themes/occasions. And I really like making sort of landscape/scenery nails too.

I did a black, gray, white gradient for my zebra fashion nails and I really like that, so I decided to do it again but then the other way around, so black tips instead of black at the cuticles. It gives the whole scene a bit of dramatic, sad feeling, but to make a little more sparkly for Christmas I added a holographic topcoat.

Base a gradient of Essence 50's girls reloaded 01 Ahoy, Catrice 01 Pebbles Beach and Beauty UK Midnight Minx black. Added a layer of Chine Glaze Wireless holographic topcoat. All the snowflakes (bigger and little) are from HB23 stamped with Konad SN white. The rest is stamped with Konad SN black.

Pinkie: trees from Nailways Snowwhite Christmas A-NW00002 plate.
Ring finger: cross from Konad S2, tree from HB33, cute snow bunny from HB38.
Middle finger: big tree HB012, small tree HB33.
Index: snowman from BM318 (I gave him a sad face), tree HB33.
Thumb: the sort of tombstone is actually the slot machine from Konad M48 that I colored in and painted a little cross on top, tree is from HB33 and the word mom and 2011 are made with the numbers and letters on the side of Konad M20 and M11.

Here another picture.

And some swatches of the gradient base.

I like this gradient.

And also a picture of Danbo in my mommy's memorial corner.

With the funeral thank you card (where she is watching the endless sunset in Greece), my little urn with Greek signs, her picture and the funeral card we designed our selves (she took this picture herself on Santorini).

Hope you all have a great Christmas.

xoxox

Golden holo Christmas nails with red stars.

Hi Everyone,

 

I made these nails last week, when I removed my Fashion Inspired fail nails ;) I really did like those and removed them the same evening. And like I said when I need to do something really quick I always grab a holo polish....they just dry soooo fast :)

 

Base China Glaze It's my turn from the Kaleidoscope collection, this was the last one of that collection that I still hadn't used for a full base color. Stamped with Konad SN red and SN black and imageplate A-NW00002 Nailways Snowwhite -Christmas plate.

 

Another pic.

 

 And of course some swatches of this very pretty golden holo.

 

 

 

The China Glaze Kaleidoscope collection is my all time favorite collection...I sooo love it.

 

Enjoy your Saturday!

 

xoxox

Decorated Christmas Tree nails

Hi Everyone.

 

Today I'll show you my 3rd and final entry for the Nail Polish Canada Holiday challenge. I had so much fun entering all these 3 weeks, and I am very happy and honored they invited me to join :) 

 

This week the theme is: Trim the Tree (Holiday Decorations): lights, ornaments, tinsel, frosting, heck, even popcorn on a string if that's your thing. Let's see your nails all dolled up like a Christmas Tree!

 

So I decided to make my nails look like decorated Christmas trees with a green base and all kinds of cute Christmas balls, ornaments and of course my barbed wire Christmas candle lights on my ring finger :) At my parents place we have lights shaped like real candles so I really wanted to do that too and I used the barbed wire to represent the power cord..LOL. The candle shaped Christmas lights remind me of the nice Christmas days we had as a family with my mom :( 

 

Base a green holo franken made with a lot of polishes (too manu to mention) and Spectraflair. Stamped with Nailways' Snowwhite Christmas plate A-NW00002 (the balls, candles, present, ginger bread, tree, teddy bear, candy cane) with Konad SN blue, SN sky blue, SN white, SN yellow, SN green, SN brown, SN red. A Essence plate for the SN red ribbons. And BM323 for the barbed wire under the candles with SN black. I drew the black lines.

 

Another pic with different light.

 

It is snowing a lot here in Holland so I took a pic from our bedroom, you see our garden and view...everything is white :) The water in the ditch is a bit frozen, luckily our own little pond isn't.

 

Here some swatches of my green holo franken base.

 

I really like this green holo :)

 

With different light.

 

These aren't my favorite/prettiest nails I have ever made, but I had fun doing these :)

 

You can see all this weeks entries here and of course you can all vote again this week for you favorite. There is also still time to join yourself :) If you like mine you can also vote for me, by selecting my blog name D.I.A.N.A and fill in your name and email. Voting closes December 12.

The prizes are open to US and Canada only so I can't win, but I do appreciate your votes :)

 

Have a nice weekend everyone!

 

Thanks for reading.

 

xoxox

It's a snowy day!

Hi Everyone,

 

I made these nails last week, before I I made them a bit shorter ;) I realy love making themed nails. They predicted snow this weekend so I decided to make an ice cold winter snowy day on my nails.

 

Base Essence 50's girls reloaded 01 Ahoy with a gradient of Essence You Rock 05 Speed of light blue, China Glaze Towel Boy Toy and China Glaze Splish Splash. Topcoat Catrice C06 Godfather of pearl for the blue shimmer/glitter. Stamped with XL O (it's a dupe from XL K), Nailways' own Christmas plate (snowwhite collection) A-NW00002, BM318, BM319, HB012, HB23, M11 and M12. Stamped with Konad SN white and Nfu Oh 65 (light blue holo).

 

Different light.

 

And some pictures of the gradient base. I really liked this gradient :)

 

 

 

 

I really like blue :)

 

This weekend I went to Germany to a Christmas Fair with my sis and my boyfriend. I got some nice cheap polishes for Christmas already :) 3 Flormars and one holo from Kiko...I was soo happy loveee holo.

 

It was already nine o'clock in the evening. But the shops and the market were open until 10.

 

Me and my sis at the Christmas fair/market or how you call it ;)

 

Here you see a crazy pic of me at the Christmas fair with my Chococat nails. It was snowing really hard, it was wet snow but did stayed on my hair and sleeve.

 

If you look closely you see the snow falling. It was sooo cold and we were soaked, so went inside the shopping mall again for some hot choco ;)

 

I got this cute warm microwave stuffed animal from boyfriend. If you put it in the microwave it becomes really warm...perfect for cold days. They had many kinds but I loved the black sheep...I sometimes also feel like a black sheep ;)

 

Me and my black sheep after the long cold snowy Christmas market shopping day.

 

 

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

All I want for Christmas...a kitty ;)

Hey Everyone,

Today I'll show you my nails for the 2nd week of Nail Polish Canada's Holiday Challenge. Last week the theme was Snow and I made my Snowy Owl nails. This week the theme is Gifts, Presents, Stockings, anything related to you getting the awesome things you want.

My parents, my sis, our boyfriends and I used to celebrate Christmas with presents under the tree and my mom would be busy wrapping the presents for weeks. The closer Christmas was, the bigger the pile of presents grew ;) She always wrapped them in other boxes or strange things otherwise we would know immediatele what was inside. It was really fun, she always said when we couldn't come up, because she was wrapping them in the attic.

But as you know last year we spent Christmas and the week before in the hospital, while my mom was in a coma and could die any moment..stupid Cancer had won. She died 2nd Christmas day :( So I really don't look foward to Christmas, because it will never be like that again, and I don't think we will ever do presents again like that :( I so really miss my mom :( these days even more.

My biggest wish for Christmas is to have my mom back, but I know that isn't possible :(

Of course I also would love to get some holo polishes (Color  Club, Jade, Hits No Olimpo or other brands) and many more new plates (both Cheeky sets, MASH, Gals, Nailz Craze, Messy Mansion, MJ plates, FUN, Sugar Bubbles, Moyou and more and more if I write down all the plates I wish for this post would be really long ;))

My boyfriend and I talked about a new kitten too. I said I wanted distraction with Christmas and I love animals. We took care in the Springtime for two 18 years old cats, that belong to my best friend and I knew them for over 9 years. He was moving and couldn't take them with them, so they lived the last weeks of their lives with us :) I was really sad when they also died, so many loses in a year. But my bf said maybe someday we will have new cats.

So that is why I decided to make present stocking gift wrap nails with on my ring finger Chococat in a stocking...isn't he cute?

Base is Colorama Nutriverniz Melancia (from Brazil) and on my ring finger Essence 50's girls reloaded 01 Ahoy!. Full nail bows stamped with Konad SN wine red and the Christmas imageplate from the Nailways Snowwhite collection they call it A-NW00002. I also stamped part of that full nail image over my red french tip on my ring finger. And the presents and stockings are also from that plate, stamped those with Konad SN white. Chococat in the stocking is a self made water decal.

Some more pictures. I still miss my own camera. But I do my best to take decent pics.

 My whole hand.

 Different settings.

 Different settings.

The bow full nail stamp and my self made Chococat in stocking water decal :) 

Here just the bow full nail stamp.

Here a swatch of the Colorama Melancia. A very bright red creme.

You can see all the amazing entries here and you can also still sign up for this weeks challenge and the next week. If you want to vote for your favorite entry you can also do it there, if you like mine you can vote on mine too by selecting my blog name D.I.A.N.A and fill in your name and email :)

Thanks for reading :)

Have a nice weekend everyone!

xoxox